I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations, ' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
Very few people go into politics to be reviled.
If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
I am the government.
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.